performance problems after 8204 ntfs reinstall

Hello,

got my 8204 and was a happy man, just a bit surprised that the installation was FAT32. I used it a few days, connected a projector and recieved the blue screen of death twice. The 8204 was never the same again after that.

Well, it was a good reason to format to NTFS and reinstall, I searched for the recovery cd but didn't find it. Well, I downloaded the drivers and found a Windows cd. Then I called the supplier because I wanted the recovery cd and he told me it was on the harddisk. Hmm...

Well, lost is lost, but now I have some performance issues. Sound and video is not continuous (not even the windows logon tune) and the boot is very slow. I have an idea that it is a problem with the harddisk, but it is just an idea. All drivers, microsoft updates and even the bios is the newest and I'm sorry to see this beast behaving like my old 566 MHz 128 MB RAM laptop. There is no problems in the device manager.

Anyone out there with simular problems or even a solution?

 

Let me tell u this: my windows takes 9 of those blue lines to load. like u know in the windows xp start up screen this blue stuff moves... it has to move 9 times.
i dont really care cause thats the ONLY thing that takes to load so long. everything else is fine.
ur problem might be due to incorrect formatting or partitioning. perhaps u have not installed the proper intel chipset driver or something of that sort. it is not the computer, its the way everything was installed back onto it. fix that.
i suggest a full reinstall. make sure to download all the latest drivers and 3315 bios. as well as newest ATI drivers.

it took me 3 full reinstallations to get my 8204 to work right. but then again... thats the way it goes. dont give up, man.

 

well i have had adio video trouble with my acer before and all i did was go under my hard drive and tell it to fix bad sectors \ fix system file errors, then restart the computer, wait for the scanning to finish(can take a long time) then it will boot up. this worked on my machine it was just and error and windows fixed it. i am using a fairly old acer but maybe try that other than that try and use the eRecovery tool chech the acer System guide under the start menue for instructions.

i feel bad for you have a sweet computer and then it not working. if not try taking it back to the retailer(if there is one) they should cover it.

hope it works out for you.

 

Same problem with me. Changed it into NTFS after that it took forever to boot.
Any body can help????

 

Hmmm, no problems for mine. I converted to NTFS, and never had any slowdowns with bootup. Since then, I've updated a few drivers and the bios, and used Partition Magic to combine the C: and D: drives into a single partition (left the 3 GB hidden partition alone!), and this baby flies!

Must be something besides converting to NTFS causing your problems with slowdown.

I've also never felt compelled to do any reinstallation, as everything is working fine (although I've been advised by many to periodically do a fresh reinstall, when all the Windows spyware crap finally bogs everything down! Anyone have any advice on this??)

 

I'm preparing another full reinstall. Any idea what you did right the third time?

 

Well i was being kinda lazy the first two times. I didnt format the whole hard drive, didnt reinstall all drivers manually and let windows update manage all of the drivers through the internet. (u know that thing when new hardware is detected and it asks u connect to theinternet... dont do that!!!)
Reformat everything, create a partition specifically for Windows XP use (about 10 Gb), go through with the installation process and install all hardware drivers manually. do not even connect to the internet until everything is done and set up properly.
But for that to happen, u need to donwload WinRAR, all of the drivers and WinZip beforehand, burn them to a CD and use that CD after reinstallation. Thats what i did... Go to Acer's european FTP site, laptops, 8204... and in the TravelMate 8204 folder, grab the bios and the whole DRIVERS folder. burn that to the cd. dont forget the archives managers. u will need them to extract the files from the archives...
That should get everything going.
Another thing, u might have picked up a virus because u connected to the internet without an AntiVirus installed... happened before.

 

Up and running again. Purrs like a kitten and roars like a lion

Thanks guys!

 

Thats what i like to hear. Enjoy yourself.
How long does it take to load now?

 

It's not a matter of "Windows spyware crap" - system slows down with time mostly because of two things: hard drive fragmentation and registry errors. Defragment your hd just after OS installation - Windows don't care where all the files are written and drive is quite fragmented right after fresh install! Defragment your drive often and do it with real defragmenter, not Windows crappy version of Diskeeper (eg. use commercial edition of Diskeeper 10 or even better - VoptXP). Schedule defragmentation eg. when screensaver is running and lunch it manually at least 2 times a month also. Scan your registry for errors often, especially if you're installing and uninstalling a lot of software but be aware that there is a lot of errors in the registry even if you're not installing anything. You can use some easy software like Registry Mechanic, but I suggest you to use jv16 Power Tools - it's much better. Compact the registry when it's needed.
And of course scan your hd with AV scanner - use different online scanners along with your regular AV software. Install at least one antispyware program and schedule fullscan once a week. Turn on autoupdate for antivirus and antispyware software. The last, but not least, use REAL firewall instead of Windows crap.
With all those things (and stable machine) you can keep OS running as new for long years without any need of reinstallation.

 

One more thing: forget about Norton or McAfee software - use REAL antivirus (something like Panda or Avast) and REAL firewall (I prefer Outpost).